His follower count skyrocketed to tens of thousands in a mere span of time.
“A cat starting a livestream? No way! Aren’t disguises/avatars required to be labeled?”
In the past, some individuals had also used disguises to masquerade as cats without labeling them, successfully amassing a massive following.
Even in the interstellar era, copying trends and imitating others remained an endless phenomenon, and disguising oneself as various small animals was the traffic code of that time.
Netizens didn’t process it at first, until a certain blogger disguised themselves as an extinct species, alarming personnel from the Empire’s Species Bureau.
The commotion caused back then was enormous, and officials from the Species Bureau traveled from afar to track the person down.
Only to discover in the end that it was all a false alarm.
Ever since that incident, the Empire stipulated that livestream disguises must be clearly tagged, otherwise offenders would be punished under the charge of disturbing public order, resulting in an immediate account ban.
It Is Bamboo: “Is this streamer disguising themselves as a cat? Their movements are very cat-like.”
He paused in silence for a moment, appearing hesitant: “…Did this streamer forget to tag their disguise? What if they get reported…?”
It’s Zhuyu!
Why is Zhuyu here?
Zhuyu certainly had no desire to visit someone else’s livestream. As one of Whale Livestream’s most prominent top streamers with fierce momentum, company resources were heavily tilted in his favor.
Ordinarily, he wouldn’t have paid attention to a minor channel broadcasting study sessions, but who would have thought someone in his own chat room mentioned a rookie blogger who looked even more cat-like.
Zhuyu had shot to rapid stardom precisely because his disguise resembled a cat, so hearing such a claim was the last straw.
He wanted to see what this so-called “more cat-like” streamer looked like. To his surprise, the person didn’t even label their disguise, how truly foolish!
“They must have forgotten…”
“Aww, I don’t want Xiao Bai to get banned; I want to pet the cat…”
The viewership count in the livestream continued to climb higher, and the bullet comments scrolled past at a rapid pace. Some viewers urged him to add a tag, while others scolded him as a fraud.
It wasn’t that the netizens weren’t willing to believe the entity before them was a real kitten, but most modern kittens were extremely precious. A tiny kitten like this one was presumably still under the care of the National Species Bureau’s Protection and Breeding Center, how could it possibly be out here streaming and learning how to read characters?
“Is only me noticing that what he’s eating is… an energy crystal?”
Finally, a netizen spotted something bizarre.
“Hiss! Seriously, this streamer will do literally anything for traffic.”
“Reported!”
“Report+1”
Watching the livestream room whose popularity had rapidly surged to one million concurrent viewers get banned, Zhuyu felt an incomparable rush of gratification.
Failing to tag his disguise was one thing, but eating energy crystals? Did he take the audience for fools?
He restarted a new livestream, where his online viewership was now one-third higher than usual.
“If you want to watch cats, you still have to watch Bamboo. What kind of person is that other streamer anyway?”
“Exactly, he didn’t even bother to check what kind of ridiculous thing he was disguising as…”
Zhuyu glanced at the chat comments in his livestream, the corners of his lips curving into a gentle arc. “Everyone, please don’t speak like that. Perhaps he really is just a novice and doesn’t know how to operate the controls…”
“Little Bamboo, you’re just too kind! Even if he forgot about the disguise, could he possibly forget that energy crystals aren’t edible?”
“He’s treating us like absolute idiots.”
“If anyone actually eats an energy crystal, I’ll live-stream myself eating dirt.”
“Let’s stop talking about him. We want to see Bamboo’s cat-boy avatar. Heart.jpg”
Zhuyu’s face flushed red, as though he felt embarrassed, but he still obliged his fans’ request. “Alright then.”
Ruan Bai, who was entirely absorbed in gnawing on his spiritual stones, remained oblivious to the events unfolding outside as time slipped away unnoticed.
By the time Marshal Huo finished installing the cat tree and came upstairs to look for Ruan Bai, he found that the pile of energy crystals had been nibbled down until only a tiny fragment remained cradled in the small feline’s arms.
Huo Jiuxiao: ……
It seemed he would need to acquire another mineral star just to keep up with this little fellow’s appetite. He had devoured dozens of crystals in a single afternoon, was his bite strength really okay?
The Marshal walked over, picked up the little milk cat, and carried him into the living room.